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Nurse outlasts, outwits, outplays to win `Survivor' show.

The Philadelphia Daily News (Philadelphia, PA)

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Byline: Ellen Gray

She might not have won the talent or swimsuit competitions, but Thursday night Miss Congeniality took the winner's crown in the finale of CBS' "Survivor: The Australian Outback."

In a 4-3 vote revealed on live television months after ballots were cast, 40-year-old Tina Wesson of Knoxville, Tenn., a mother of two and former flight attendant, won the show's $1 million top prize.

Twenty-six-year-old Dallas car-customizer Colby Donaldson finished in second place with a mere $100,000.

Moments before the group had voted, Tina had told them she hoped that no one based his or her vote on whether "you got your feelings hurt," …

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